I'm sure Union Jack has known a few! - TTN
Yes indeed, depending of course on one's definition of "known".....
Many of you will know the doubtless apocryphal story of the Captain doing Rounds on a Saturday morning and, on entering the Stokers' messdeck, exclaiming, "My wife would say that this mess smells like a Turkish brothel," to which the three badge Leading Hand of the Mess replied, "I'm sorry, Sir, I'm afraid I don't have your wife's experience."!
At the other end of the scale, I escorted a Field Marshal and long past CDS on a tour of my Admiral's flagship, which included stand easy (aka tea break) in the Stokers' mess. As we were about to leave, the Field Marshal in his beret and very faded woolly pully and equally faded shoulder straps asked if there were any questions, and the no badge junior stoker, who had just entered the mess with no idea of who the visitor was and whose military knowledge was somewhat lacking, said, "Yes, Sir. How come someone your age never got past Sergeant Major?"
To his credit, His Lordship was very amused.
Jack